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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  I have read a newspaper piece about the unintended consequences of strongly enforced child labor laws and what happened when they prevented the factories and small shops from working the children long hours in horrible conditons, even though that country had hardly any social programs to take up the slack. So many of the little children starved to death, became slaves or prostitutes to try to get some money for food. |
Thank you for succinctly and eloquently summarizing my post. I've always been nervous about posting about this topic.